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Marianna in Conspiracyland 1: 10. A Risk That’s Impossible To Ignore

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Tech News, News, Documentary, Society &Amp; Culture

2.8947 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

What will happen next in Conspiracyland? In the final episode, Marianna is back where she started, in the Devon town of Totnes. With the help of locals, she makes sense of the legacy left by the conspiracy theory newspaper and the wider movement all over the UK.

Host: Marianna Spring Producers: Philip Marzouk and Olivia Lace-Evans Producer for BBC Radio 4 podcasts: Nathan Jones Technical Producer: Alex Portfelix Senior news editor: Sam Bonham Commissioner: Rhian Roberts

New episodes released every Monday. If you're in the UK, listen to the whole series first on BBC Sounds.

And please get in touch with Marianna by emailing at: mariannainconspiracyland@bbc.co.uk.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A group of men ran in with machetes.

0:03.8

I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live,

0:08.6

this is gangster, the story of Georgie Pye.

0:13.2

The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives.

0:17.0

Welcome to the world of the triads.

0:19.6

If the triads are coming out of you, you're done.

0:21.5

Where loyalty is sworn in blood.

0:24.8

Gangster.

0:25.8

The story of Georgie Pye.

0:27.6

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:35.0

It's the final episode in my journey through conspiracy land, and I'm back where I started

0:41.4

in the small Devon Town of Totnes. I'm in a cosy independent cinema come community space nestled

0:49.7

in the High Street, and there's an event on.

1:00.0

It's a screening of a film about climate change. There are activists doing their bit, setting up before the film starts.

1:04.0

You could say a typical night out in Totness.

1:07.0

And so usually we talk about radical power analysis and activism, or we go and hang out with the trees.

1:15.4

I've come to meet some more locals here, including a prominent left-wing activist and journalist George Mombio.

1:21.9

He's a newcomer to the town who's written about conspiracy theories.

1:25.9

So I want to get his view on the legacy left

1:28.3

by the conspiracy theory newspaper, The Light,

1:31.6

and the wider movement that lingers here and all over the UK.

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